Daniel Gonzales was promoted Thursday to the ranks of Carson City Sheriff’s Office Captain.
Gonzales has been with CCSO for nearly 18 years, joining in September 2003. He has served in the position of Investigations Commander for CCSO since April 2020 and will remain in that position.
Before that, he’s been a Sergeant from September 2003 to April 2020, and Sergeant for the CCSO Special Enforcement Team, from October 2014 to September 2018. Before that he was a detective from July 2007 to September 2012.
Gonzales also serves as president of Holiday with a Hero, which takes homeless and underprivileged children from the Carson City School District on a shopping spree for Christmas gifts for themselves and family members with money generated from community donations.
Daniel is married to Meliah Gonzales, a Carson City District Court Bailiff. The couple have five children.
Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said Gonzales has performed at all divisions of the sheriff’s office, and provided outstanding leadership as a lieutenant and as a sergeant. Furlong noted it is the strengths that Gonzales has in looking ahead at situations, anticipating and planning for potential outcomes, which makes him an outstanding leader.
Speaking of his attributes, Furlong aid Gonzales has the ability “to look past what is on the surface, predict what will happen and how people will react to it.”
As an example, the sheriff explained how Gonzales, along with Capt. Wall and Capt. Earl Mays, were instrumental in operational planning as the events of last year unfolded with the COVID pandemic and political demonstrations at the state capitol.
In other CCSO matters:
— Sheriff Furlong swore in Jeremiah “Jerry” Green as CCSO’s newest deputy. He has been assigned to to the patrol division. Deputy Green was previously an officer for the University of Nevada, Reno and before that played college football for UNR, and pro football for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and arena football for the San Jose SaberCats, and Ottawa Redblacks in the Canadian Football League. He is the brother of Los Angeles Chargers tight end Virgil Green.
— Sheriff Furlong congratulated Sgt. Matt Smith for a successful Sheriff’s Night Out event that happened Tuesday, having helped create a partnership of deputies, departments, multiple agencies and volunteers to make it happen. The sheriff also thanked the sheriff’s office deputies, dozens of agencies involved and those who volunteered to make the event a success.
— Calling him “a real icon to this community” the sheriff also praised the career of CCSO Deputy Dean Williams who retired this summer after 25 years of service.
